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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

with little consideration being given to acquiredknowledge, mature judgment, proven dedication to the larger enterprise, and such. 2Since that paper was first drafted many factors have rapidly converged and conspired to changeboth the world and the discussion about the dynamics of engineering employment: • the world economy remains fragile and volatile, but increasingly integrated across national borders; 3 • cheap, instantaneous global communication has made international markets and an international workforce a functioning reality; 4 • huge pressure for profits has resulted in US industry engaging in out-sourcing by off-shoring significant numbers of technical jobs, while at the same time demanding increased innovation and creativity

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Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

, the analog signal techniques have greater importance. New analog design techniquesand circuit layout techniques are being used in modern industry. Many of the current analog coursesequences consist of courses to teach physics of electronic components such as diodes andtransistors and a substantial part of the course is devoted to learning discrete design techniques.However, most technology graduates work on systems that use integrated circuits and electronicsubsystems. Very rarely, they are asked to design with discrete components. The design usingdiscrete components is required in semiconductor industry, but they require more depth in thesubject than what can be learned at the undergraduate level. Therefore, there is an urgent need

Conference Session

The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mara Wasburn

Session 3192 Developing an Integrated Freshman Seminar for Women in Technology: An Innovative University-Corporate Partnership Model Mara H. Wasburn, Susan G. Miller Purdue UniversityAbstractAccording to a recent report by the National Council for Research on Women, at least half of theavailable science, engineering and technology talent pool will be women. Therefore, it becomesimperative to retain more women in these disciplines. Increasingly, companies and corporationsare seeking to diversify those areas of their workforce that are predominantly male. In 2002

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahman Motlagh; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

Session 1379 Innovative Technologies in the ET Curriculum Alireza Rahrooh, Farhad Kaffashi, Bahman Motlagh, Walter Buchanan Univ. of Central Florida/Case Western Reserve Univ./ Univ. of Central Florida/ Northeastern UniversityAbstract Closed-loop feedback control system is an important component of a well-roundedengineering technology program. However, since feedback control systems tends to be a rathercomplex topic, students react positively to hands-on experiments that assist them visualizecontrol systems in practical situations, and, in

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James West; Dennis Miller; Daina Briedis

has begun developing a revised curriculumbased on several inputs—the assessment of student outcomes in our own program (ABETEngineering Criteria, Criterion 3), input from the alumni focus groups, and response to some ofthe Frontiers proposals. Many of the elements identified by the Frontiers workshops havealready been integrated into our curriculum over the past several years; these changes have beenmade based on the evidence gathered by our assessment and evaluation processes. The mostimportant of these changes include • an emphasis in the enabling sciences (a required advanced biology course, restructuring of the physical chemistry requirement, and a new chemical engineering applied math course); • elimination of

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Maurice Bluestein; Pete Hylton

prerequisite course. To test the validity ofthis assumption, the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Technology Department (MET) atIndiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI), instituted, in the fall of 1999, areview test for students beginning a Thermodynamics II course. The test was made up of sixquestions on basic differential and integral calculus and four questions on basic thermodynamics.These represented the course’s two prerequisites and all questions were multiple choice. Theaverage scores for the students over an eight semester period were 46.6% for the mathematicsand 38.3% for the thermodynamics, with a 43.3% overall. Clearly, retention has been limited. In the fall of 2001 the MET Department instituted a

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Hirleman

, for a program to be an integral part of the educational experience, there mustbe support from a large number of faculty who to first order split their time equally betweenresearch and education. In other words, the challenge is to design a program that is consistentwith appropriate career goals of engineering faculty and presents a compelling value propositionto approximately 50 out of 250 predominately-midwestern Purdue ME students per class.III. The Design Solution – GEARE:The Global Engineering Alliance for Research and Education (GEARE) model is based oncomprehensive, strategic partnerships between a few similar international institutions. Itinvolves student and faculty exchange programs, curriculum integration, and collaborativeresearch

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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Marvin Needler; Ken Jr. Jannotta; William Lin; Richard Pfile

network. It is our hope that studentswill become aware of the trend of integration and convergence between these twonetworks and inspire themselves to further engage in enhancing their knowledge in amore comprehensive manner.The detailed outlines of this two-week guest lecture and the two laboratory exercises areprovided in the Appendix.IV. Challenges and conclusionAn attempt to cover ongoing computer networking issues in an existing curriculum isalways a challenging task. While members in the industry are still debating issues relatedto networking and slowly realign themselves in a proper direction, academic curriculaneed to be designed with this future industry in mind. The rapid growth of theinformation technology increases the complexity of

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

sequential approach, teaching general principles and methods before skills of application. Historically, the dominance of science in an engineering curriculum manifests itself in methods of selecting and solving problems. The tendency to simplify beyond real constraints, and to consider practical issues as impediments to a simple clean solution, is a deviation from the truth that needs to be rectified. To address this deviation, the instructor can introduce real applications, and could also draw on his/her own personal experience, or on the experience of practitioners who may be willing to contribute by presenting a real life problem to the class, when a slot is available. Additionally, students who have participated in professional

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

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Saeed Foroudastan

pollution, lack of space for solid wastes, and diminishing sources of clean water.There is no doubt that steps need to be taken to ensure that there are sufficient recoursesto sustain an exponentially growing world population.This paper will address the most critical points affecting environmental issues such asresource conservation, sustainability, and national and international corporateresponsibility, and the reasons they need to be addressed in engineering curriculums.Additionally, it will discuss creative methods that environmentally friendly practices canbe integrated into the engineering curriculum through partnering with industries.IntroductionA key phrase among many of today’s environmentalists, economists, and engineers is“sustainable

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Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lunt Barry; C. Richard Helps; Joseph Ekstrom

Session 1450 Education at the Seams: Preliminary Evaluation of Teaching Integration as a Key to Education in Information Technology Joseph J. Ekstrom, Barry Lunt, C. Richard Helps Brigham Young UniversityAbstractInformation Technology (IT) is widely considered to be an integrative discipline. Manyfour-year IT programs accept programming, networking, web systems, databases andhuman-computer interaction as core topics in IT. Active discussion continues as to thebest way to teach and sequence these topics. We have proposed and begun to implementa curriculum that reflects a

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

possible and feasible tointegrate the topic of structural loads, dead, live, snow and wind load, into any one of thestructural design courses, all-be-it at an elementary level. However, with the adoption of buildingcodes, such as the IBC 2000, the calculation of structural loads has become complex and timeconsuming.In order to meet the changing needs in this subject area of the CET curriculum, a new stand-alone course in structural loads and systems has become a necessity. This paper discusses thedevelopment and integration of a 2-credit hour required course in structural loads and systemsthat is offered to 3rd year students in the CET program at Rochester Institute of Technology(RIT). The topics discussed include: impetus for developing the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Maria Tahamont; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

familiar system. Our long-term vision for the full development of this project is the complete integration of afull spectrum of BME topics into the entire ECE curriculum, with additional elective courses de-signed to provide a minor or concentration in BME. If successful, this approach can then be usedfor integrating BME into other engineering disciplines within a college of engineering, whichmay then serve as the foundation of an interdepartmental undergraduate BME degree program. 3. Implementation Teaching new BME concepts primarily in a laboratory setting fits naturally to Rowan’sECE program17, the key attributes of which include the following techniques to prepare studentsfor a rapidly changing and highly competitive career market. (1

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TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

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Anwar Hossain; James Fragomeni

Integrating Material Science and Processing into the Undergraduate Engineering & Science Curriculum Using the Web James M. Fragomeni and Anwar Hossain The University of Detroit Mercy, Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering and Science, Detroit, Michigan 48237, USA.AbstractThe proper understanding of engineering materials is very foundational and important withrespect to all the various branches of engineering, science, and technology for a completeundergraduate engineering program. The purpose of this communication is to help satisfy thisrequirement for a more thorough undergraduate engineering

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Fisher; Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

Session 1408 Practicing Omega: Addressing Learning Outcomes in an On-line Case Simulation Thomas J Brumm, Anthony Ellertson, David Fisher, and Steven K. Mickelson Iowa State UniversityAbstractPrevious studies by the College of Engineering at Iowa State have shown that the workplace(e.g., internships) is perceived as one of the best places to assess and develop the competencieswe have linked to our program student outcomes. The challenge we have undertaken is to crafteducational experiences on campus that are more meaningful and that relate directly

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell; Joseph Cecere

established, active relationship maintained withits Industry Advisory Board which routinely reviews and advises the staff and faculty onemerging trends and needs within the industry. Certainly, this integration of an advisoryboard is in concert with the new ABET criteria which formally promotes a “partnering”approach to ensure the relevancy of the curriculum to the needs of the industry andultimately the society our graduates serve. This strategic vision recently provided theimpetus for a comprehensive curriculum overhaul designed to significantly enhance theflexibility of the program. Deloped over a period of approximately two years, the newcurriculum alignment created three educational options where students can specialize instructural design, in

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Ferry; Andrew Otieno

integrationof vision with other components. The automation curriculum has an extensive portion focusingon sensors and integration of sensors with actuators, mainly pneumatic. There is also asubstantial section on using PLCs to control automation components. In addition to this, the threerobots attached to this cell and a fourth stand-alone one are used in the instruction of robotics,including applications, programming and interfacing. This cell finally provides the students withan opportunity to integrate together what they have learned in the course into a functionalautomation cell. In many automation courses students tend to the different skills independentlyand rarely have a chance to integrate the components of automation. This cell therefore

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zac Bunnell; Garett Scott; Sundararajan Madihally

learned in core classes such as mass transfer operations,chemical reactor design, and transport phenomena. Typically students carryout a number ofexperiments related to each concept. This modular approach emphasizes the process concepts,but lacks interconnectivity and integration of novel computational tools such as simulationpackages, statistical analysis tools and technical writing skills. At Oklahoma State University,one goal in chemical engineering education is to encourage students to connect conceptsdeveloped in multiple courses, and generate comprehensive solutions to engineering problems.The UOL is an ideal course to integrate all chemical engineering curriculum skills as well as thetechnical tools that are routinely used in the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Heidi Diefes-Dux; Brenda Capobianco; Judith Zawojewski; Margret Hjalmarson; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman

different backgrounds and values to emerge as talented.Further, we believe that adapting these types of activities to engineering courses has the potentialto go beyond “filling the gaps” to “opening doors” to women in engineering. As part of an NSFfunded Gender-Equity project, four MEAs were implemented in a first-year problem solving andcomputer tools course at Purdue University in Fall 2002. This paper will describe the nature ofMEAs, overview the research methodology, and demonstrate evidence of curriculum reform atour institution.I. IntroductionOn the national scene, while overall enrollment and retention trends in engineering are alarmingin the face of a national need to increase the technology workforce, the National ScienceFoundation

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Eugene Audette

Session 2555 Addressing the Need for Engineering Educators in Higher Education: A Proposal and an Associated Curriculum Eugene J. Audette, Ph.D., L.P. Associate Dean, Academics & Research School of Education University of St. Thomas-Minneapolis Ronald J. Bennett, Ph.D. Director and Chair School of Engineering & Technology Management University of St

Conference Session

Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Niebuhr; Heather Smith

Engineering Education, Vol. 91, No. 4. October 2002, pp. 379-385. 3 Shooter, S. and M. McNeill, “Interdisciplinary Collaborative Learning in Mechatronics at Bucknell University,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 91, No. 3. July 2002, pp. 339-344. 4 Shih, C. and Alvi, F., “An Integrated Thermal & Fluids Curriculum,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO., 2000. 5 “Restructuring Engineering Education: A Focus on Change,” Report of an NSF Workshop on Engineering Education, NSF 95-65, National Science Foundation, Aug. 16th, 1995. 6 Vanasupa, L., et al., “The Foundation Series on Corrosion: Integrating Science, Math, Engineering & Technology in a Lab Setting,” Proceedings of the ASEE

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gearold Johnson; Thomas Siller

that make up theelements of the engineering curriculum. Boundaries exist between the components that comprisethe engineering curriculum. These boundaries change, or move in response to the various callsfor curriculum change. Therefore it is important to not only define the boundary locations, butalso the contents within the boundaries. For example, if you asked engineering educators whatskills an engineering education should provide its graduates they would probably use words likegraduates should be well-grounded in analysis skills (problem solving capabilities); able tosynthesize (do engineering design); and have essential social skills including both written andoral communications, an understanding of ethics, teamwork, leadership, etc

Conference Session

Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

N. M. Ravindra; Jr., Anthony Culpepper; Henry McCloud; Howard Kimmel

to themicrocomputer and has a number of analog and digital inputs that can be connected to avariety of electronic sensors. These are connected to an EPROM (ErasableProgrammable Read Only Memory) that has several machine coded routines built in.These routines handle the preprocessing of signals from the sensors and the serialcommunication with the computer. These routines allow applications, such as LoggerPro, to control and read a wide range of sensors and probes. The ULI is integrated withPasco Scientifics’ [5,6] motion sensors and photo gates to assist in experiments such asthe study conservation of energy and momentum during collisions, monitor thesinusoidal motion of a mass on a spring and measure the motion of large objects.A physics

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Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Cecil

Session 1658 Innovation in Information Based Manufacturing Engineering Education Dr. J. Cecil Industrial Engineering New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 880111. IntroductionThis paper discusses curriculum innovation in an emerging area of engineering, whichcan be described as ‘Information Based Manufacturing Engineering’ (INBM). The keycurriculum and research activities outlined in this paper are part of continuing efforts inthe department of industrial engineering at New Mexico State University (NMSU) todevelop a comprehensive

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Walters; Albert Lozano

PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE: DEVELOPMENT OF AN ASSOCIATEDEGREE IN NANOTECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY AT PENN STATE UNIVERSITY Robert Walters and Albert Lozano Commonwealth College The Pennsylvania State UniversityWhile not long ago nanotechnology was confined to university research laboratories,nanotechnology techniques are today becoming integrated into mainstream industries. A sharpincrease is predicted in the number of industries and processes that will use differentnanotechnology approaches for their products in the near future. In fact, the NSF predicts thatnanotech innovations will create a $1 trillion business within the

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shuhui Li; Rajab Challoo

Session Number: 3433Restr uctur ing Ener gy Conver sion Cour se Using An Integr ative Appr oach and Computer Assisted Teaching Tools Shuhui Li and Rajab Challoo Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Texas A&M University – Kingsville Kingsville, TX 78363ABSTRACT The course of Energy Conversion is a required course in EE curriculum at Texas A&MUniversity – Kingsville (TAMUK). Traditionally, this course dealt with topics of transformersand electric machines, and was normally presented under

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hari Janardanan Nair; Frank Liou

requires expertise spanning across biology, chemistry, fluids, mechanics, electronicsand signal processing. By selecting such unique projects as part of the curriculum, eachstudent within the study team will get an opportunity to work in their own area of interestand also benefit from each other’s experience. The team should also conduct different casestudy analyses of successful MEMS devices. Review of current journal and conferencepapers should also be an integral part of the curriculum to introduce the student to the latestdevelopments in the field.The educational curriculum should be designed such that it addresses the followingeducational goals:• Provide the ability for synthesis, processing and manufacturing of micro-system through

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Murphy

Session 1648 Building Safety Education into Engineering Curriculum David L. Murphy The University of North Carolina at Charlotte “The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book” – John Wilkes Workplace injury and the associated costs significantly erode employer profit margins. Anestimated seven percent of profits are spent, directly or indirectly, as a result of a workplaceinjury. An effective illustration is that of an iceberg. The tip of the iceberg (the smallest yetmost visible part) represents the actual cost of the injury, such as medical

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazel Pierson; Daniel Suchora

1560 Engineering Computing. It is offered only inthe Spring Semester. This three semester hour course replaced various computing and CADcourses in the different curriculums. The course meets for an equivalent two hours lecture andthree hours of lab per week. It is scheduled as a combined lecture/lab course typically three daysper week at one and a half hours per day. This class is typically limited to thirty students and isconducted in a computer lab classroom where each student has a computer. The instructor has avisual presenter and computer connected to a classroom projection system so that lectures can be Page 9.610.8 Proceedings of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taner Eskil; Mark Urban-Lurain; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

curriculum, we believe thatfaculty consensus can be built piecemeal by building, from the bottom-up, pairwise linkagesbetween courses based on content that students need to integrate across the curriculum such thateach linkage will reinforce and build on prior student experience. A pairwise linkage could be asoft link in which conceptual material from an earlier course could be assumed and built upon inthe higher level course of the linkage. More interestingly, a pairwise linkage could also be a hardlink such as that formed by having term project teams consist of students from both courses. It isour working belief that by implementing over time a set of pairwise linkages across a curriculumthat faculty support will evolve towards more support for